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Expert teachers are given time to serve as mentors to help beginners learn their craft. The government pays for 100 hours of professional development each year for all teachers. In addition, they have 20 hours a week to work with other teachers and visit one another's classrooms. And teachers continue to advance throughout their career. With aid from the government, teachers in Singapore can pursue three separate career ladders, which help them become curriculum specialists, mentors for other teachers or school principals. These opportunities bring recognition, extra compensation and new challenges that keep teaching exciting and allow teachers...
...would be wonderful if we knew more about teachers such as these and how to multiply their number. How do they come by their craft? What qualities and capacities do they possess? Can these abilities be measured? Can they be taught? Perhaps above all: How should excellent teaching be rewarded so that the best teachers-the most competent, caring and compelling-remain in a profession known for low pay, low status and soul-crushing bureaucracy...
...must spearhead the effort to craft a new, post-Kyoto climate change treaty,” Dedousis said. “The era of unlimited carbon emissions is over...
...unexpected effects may be in the Harvard classroom. This semester, award-winning television writer and producer Jeffrey D. Melvoin ’75 is bringing over 25 years of experience in the entertainment industry to Cambridge. Melvoin’s new course, Dramatic Arts 37, “The Craft of Storytelling on Stage, Television, and Screen,” will give students an understanding of the differences and similarities of the three media—stage, television, and film—through script-reading. By close study of a script in each medium, Melvoin hopes to help students explore...
...What I was looking for in this was to craft a new kind of academic industry interaction based on true collaboration and not just a transfer of money,” Bolen said. “We will be working hand-in-hand with Dr. Harper?...